Workload Automation (WLA) is a software solution or technology that
enables organizations to automate, schedule, and manage a wide range of
computing tasks, jobs, and processes across their IT infrastructure. These
tasks can include batch processing, data transfers, application and system
maintenance, and various other routine and critical business processes. The
primary goal of workload automation is to improve operational efficiency,
reduce human error, and ensure that tasks are executed reliably and on time.
Job Scheduling and Automation: CA Broadcom's Workload
Automation solutions allow organizations to schedule and automate a wide
range of tasks and jobs across their IT infrastructure. This included
batch jobs, data transfers, application processes, and more.
Cross-Platform Support: These solutions typically supported
multiple platforms, including mainframes, distributed systems, and cloud
environments, allowing organizations to manage and automate jobs across
diverse IT environments.
Centralized Management: CA Broadcom's Workload Automation
solutions often provided a centralized management console or interface for
defining, scheduling, and monitoring jobs and workflows. This centralized
control helped ensure efficient resource utilization.
Dependency Management:
Users could define dependencies between different jobs and tasks, ensuring that
jobs ran in the correct sequence to avoid conflicts and errors.
Alerting and Notifications: These solutions usually included
alerting and notification features to inform administrators of job
failures or other issues, facilitating prompt responses to problems.
Security and Compliance: Ensuring the security of job execution
and compliance with policies and regulations was a key aspect. Audit
trails and logs were often maintained to track job execution for
compliance purposes.
Integration: CA Broadcom's Workload Automation solutions
could integrate with various IT management tools, enabling seamless
interactions with other systems like monitoring solutions, incident
management platforms, and more.
Reporting and Analytics:
Some versions of these solutions offered reporting and analytics capabilities,
allowing organizations to gain insights into job performance, resource
utilization, and efficiency.
Workload Automation solutions from Broadcom enhance your visualization
and control of these complex workloads across platforms, ERP systems, and the
cloud. Manage all workloads that relate to your critical business processes
from one location. Advanced analytics and service level management allow you to keep your finger
on the pulse and deliver better services to the business. Dynamically respond
to real-time business events, mapping workload processes to service level
agreements, ensuring continual monitoring and automating recovery.